James Landay is a professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also the chief technology officer and cofounder of NetRaker. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from Berkeley in 1990 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993 and 1996, respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation was the first to demonstrate the use of sketching in user interface design tools. He has published extensively in the area of human-computer interaction, including articles on user interface design and evaluation tools, gesture recognition, pen-based user interfaces, mobile computing, and visual languages. He has also consulted for a number of Silicon Valley companies.

Books from James

The Design of Sites, Second Edition, is the definitive reference for the principles, patterns, methodologies, and best practices underlying exceptional Web design. If you are involved in the creation of dynamic Web sites, this book will give you all the necessar...